Objectives:
- Explain the need for SSI surveillance in order to support infection prevention and safe surgery
- Outline the approaches taken to conduct SSI surveillance
- Describe the challenges and some of the proposed solutions for undertaking SSI surveillance in under-resourced settings
- Summarize the role of the World Surgical Infection Society (WSIS) in supporting surveillance and improvement in under resourced settings

Date

June 13, 2019

Live broadcast time

… 1:30pm-2:30pm in New York / Toronto… 7:30pm in Geneva... 3:30am (June 14) in Sydney... 2:30pm in Buenos Aires... 8:30pm in Riyadh

Faculty:

Dr Joseph S Solomkin, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and World Surgical Infection Society